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Acronycta hasta Gn. 



This species as described by Hampson in Vol. VIII, p. 

 73, and figured on PI. CXXIV, f. 22, is not the hasta of my 

 collection or of my Monograph, nor, I believe, of Guenee. 

 It is the species that for many years masqueraded as clarescens 

 Gn., and was subsequently referred by me to pruni Harr. The 

 type of hasta is not in the British Museum, and there is no 

 statement by Hampson that he has seen it. Guenee's descrip- 

 tion does not in the least fit pruni, which is never a deep 

 violaceous ashen "cendre violatre fonce," but rather "gris- 

 cendre clair saupoudre de noiratre." Nor could pruni ever 

 be called "tres voisine" of fnrcifera. As the matter stands, 

 I prefer to retain pruni Harr., as representing the species 

 now known to us in all stages, while for hasta I prefer to retain 

 the dark blue gray species which is really a very near neighbor 

 of furcifcra. I might add that Hampson apparently includes 

 under fnrcifera, the species that I have separated as hasta. 



Acronycta telum Gn. Noct. 1, 45. 



This species has not heretofore been definitely identified in 

 collections. Guenee described it from a single male out of his 

 own collection, comparing it with furcifera and hasta, and 

 giving the locality as "Amerique Septentrionale." Walker 

 turned the original description into Latin, abbreviating and 

 laying stress upon the character of the secondaries, as by the 

 terms of the original he was justified in doing. He gives the 

 locality as "United States," but apparently knew nothing more 

 of the species. 



Mr. Grote, in the Bull U. S. Geol. Surv. VI, 571, 1883, 

 translates Guenee's description into English, omitting, probably 

 by accident, a portion of the description of primaries. He 

 adds that "I do not identify this description." In Papilio, 

 III, 67, he remarks that this must resemble hasta and furci- 

 fera. 



In my Catalogue of 1893 no progress is recorded and the 

 species yet stands unindentified. 



In my revision of Acronycta, p. 87, 1898, telum is referred 



